Thank you, mikeinmet, JameCCorn, and others for your interest in this issue. Here is a link to the expanded version of this article that might address your points in more detail: http://www.nola.com/education/index.ssf/2012/04/pastor_at_the_center_of_contro.html

While the archdiocese doesn't comment on reasons for priest transfers, I argue it remains newsworthy to note important leadership changes at institutions that have experienced recent, high-profile issues regardless of whether the transfers are a direct result of those controversies or part of a routine annual shifting of pastors.

Readers, you might have noticed that the original version of this article said 16 principals were being released from their jobs because of the performance policy. The correct number is 15. One school, Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary, appeared on the school system's list of sites that failed to meet the academic requirements needed to retain the principal, but because that school is in the midst of a turnaround plan financed by a federal School Improvement Grant, system administrators are making an exception in that case and retaining Principal Elizabeth Wren.

Readers, you might have noticed that the original version of this article said 16 principals were being released from their jobs because of the performance policy. The correct number is 15. One school, Shirley Johnson/Gretna Park Elementary, appeared on the school system's list of sites that failed to meet the academic requirements needed to retain the principal, but because that school is in the midst of a turnaround plan financed by a federal School Improvement Grant, system administrators are making an exception in that case and retaining Principal Elizabeth Wren.